TAIPEI (The Star/ANN) – Taiwanese actor Derek Chang got his big-screen break with a winning role in “Big Three Dragons” early this year, after featuring in half a dozen Mandarin TV dramas from Taiwan and China. “Big Three Dragons” was a big hit in Taiwan where it opened during the Chinese New Year and grossed over NTD$30 million at the Taiwanese box office.

In the movie, Chang plays a carefree young man named Sheng Xiao Bai who is the heir apparent to a mahjong empire. Although he is first in a line of succession, Xiao Bai somehow gets cheated out of his inheritance by his flamboyant uncle Nan Feng (Michael Huang). Despite falling on hard times, he meets a money-minded young woman named Shen Wu Que (Ella Chen of Taiwanese girl group S.H.E.), who spurs him to win back everything he lost.

在演出之前張軒睿做了很多功課，研究如何完美詮釋有錢人的生活方式和性格。

The rising star who hails from Taipei revealed that he did a lot of research to study his character’s personality and to better understand a rich man’s lifestyle.

首次出演電影就和許多資深演員合作，張軒睿說他感到非常幸運，《大三元》的戲班人馬還包含澎恰恰、王彩樺、羅時豐等人。

Making his film debut in a Taiwanese festive comedy like “Big Three Dragons”, Chang said he felt very fortunate for the opportunity to work with many experienced seniors and veterans from the film industry such as Chen, Huang, Peng Chia-Chia, Lotus Wang, Daniel Lo and others.

“Ella was very bubbly, which helped to keep the mood light so shooting the movie was fun and very enjoyable even though we had to pull several all-nighters. She also loves to improvise and keeps surprising us with spontaneous scenes which I have to quickly give appropriate reactions to.”

除了打痲將的場景，張軒睿在片中也有打拳擊，這是他感到比較困難的部分。

Apart from mahjong playing scenes, Chang also had boxing scenes, which he found to be quite challenging.

「好在我們在拍攝前有進行訓練，因為拍攝拳擊畫面準確性非常重要，如果沒有事先排練好，很有可能會不小心打到彼此然後受傷。」張軒睿說。

“Luckily, we got to do a fair bit of training before we started shooting. Without proper training and rehearsals, someone could get injured. Accuracy is very important, because if we missed each other during a fight scene, then we may end up hitting one another.”

雖然拍攝部分需要比較多事前準備，張軒睿還是希望未來可以演出更多需要大量動作的角色，因為他感到非常有挑戰性。

Despite having to put in extra work, Chang says he is looking forward to doing more action-oriented roles. “I’d like to take up that challenge, as I feel good performing action scenes.”